The number one question I am asked as a travel blogger is “where is my favorite place.” It seems like such a simple question, but it can be interpreted in several ways. Should I answer my fav...
Today is Earth Day and this week is national park week. It is the perfect time to reflect on over 30 years of outdoor travels by chronicling my top five national park adventures. My first natio...
Bucket lists are the rave in the adventure travel world these days. Everyone wants to make a list of where they want to go before they die and then tell everyone else whether they want to know or...
This photo was taken at Eco Pond at the Flamingo campground at the Everglades National Park in Florida. There is a half mile walk around the pond and there is always something to see. I have seen...
Music is large part of my life and is a large aspect in the human existence in general. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that another big facet of my life, travel, and music go well together. T...
Camping with raccoons in Florida or anywhere can be interesting to say the least. Many parks have problems with critters big and small, but the most interesting confrontations I have had with wil...
A bird I had never seen before is the beautiful purple gallinule, but this is a familiar refrain when you go to the Everglades National Park in Florida. I would walk around the corner and run int...
Everybody loves babies, and alligators are no different. During a hike along the Shark Valley 11 mile loop in late January in the Everglades National Park in Florida, a few years back, I came upo...
As travelers we often get too fixated on checking off items on our bucket list and do not spend enough time reflecting on the awesome times we have had. Sometimes, we need to pause and take a bre...
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, every Saturday ABC showed the Wide World of Sports. The iconic beginning of this show declared that sports show the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. T...